His particular interests are (1) population histories (migration, displacement, diaspora and exile the construction of national, ethnic and social identities community cohesion and conflict the politics of collective memory and the public use of history forms of state population management and demographic intervention, e.g. Nick's research focuses on 20th century Russian/Soviet and East European political, cultural and social histor y an d historical geography. He sits on the editorial board of several journals, including Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. Nick has been a long-standing member of the AHRC and ESRC Peer Review Colleges and regularly serves as a reader for international journals and book publishers. He has also participated in and directed several public engagement and knowledge transfer projects involving collaboration with schools, museums, libraries, galleries and community organisations. He has edited one volume of essays, co-edited four further volumes, and published numerous book chapters and articles in leading journals in areas studies, history and historical geography. Nick has published a monograph on early Soviet history and a research-based biography of a Northern Irish officer who fought in the Russian Civil War and was later active in Ulster politics (both of these have been published in Russian language editions). His work has received funding from ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC, British Academy, European Commission and the Yeltsin Foundation. Nick took up a post at the University of Nottingham in 2004.
A Study of Space and Power in Stalinist Russia'.įrom 1999-2004, Nick was a Research Fellow (from 2002, Senior Research Fellow) at the University of Manchester on an AHRC project on post-First World War population displacements, under the direction of Prof.
Rees, and funded by an ESRC Research Associateship and then ESRC Studentship, was titled 'Soviet Karelia, 1920-1937. His doctoral thesis, written under the supervision of Prof. In 2001 he received his PhD in History from the University of Birmingham. completed a BA Joint Honours in History and Modern Languages (German) and an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford.
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